[AISWorld] Summary of responses on: How to find out whether agile principles are followed up or not:

Tue Dec 4 05:38:54 EST 2012

Dear Colleagues,

I have received quite a number of responses on my request (see the 
original request at the end of this message). I, and my students greatly 
appreciate your engagement. Below find a list of references compiled 
from the responses received so far. If there are more responses coming, 
I will post an extended list later.

Thanks and best regards

Ilia
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References:

IJKM has published several articles looking at KM in software 
development/methodologies, also has articles applying use cases to KM, 
patterns to KM, and other techniques to KM project development.  Take a 
look at the past articles at: 
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-knowledge-management-ijkm/1083 

The ISJ's latest issue (22-6) has a couple of papers on Agile Methods.

Sue Kong, Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall. Project contexts and use 
of agile software development methodology in practice: a case study. 
(Business case study).  Journal of Academy of Business and Economics 
12(2), 2012, 1-15

Kendall, J. E. and Kendall, K. E. "Agile Methodologies and the Lone 
Systems Analyst: When Individual Creativity and Organizational Goals 
Collide in the Global IT Environment," /Journal of Individual Employment 
Rights/, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2005, pp. 333-347.

Kendall, J.E., Kendall, K.E., and Kong, S. "Improving Quality Through 
The Use Of Agile Methods in Systems Development: People and Values in 
the Quest for Quality,"  in /Measuring Information Systems Delivery 
Quality,/ edited by E. W. Duggan & H. Reichgelt. Hershey, PA: Idea Group 
Publishing, Chapter IX, 2006, pp, 201-222.

Conboy, K., and Fitzgerald, B. 2004. Toward a Conceptual Framework of 
Agile Methods. C. Zannier, H. Erdogmus, and L. Lindstrom (eds.), (Vol. 
3134) XP/Agile Universe. 105--116.

Babb, J. J. and Nørbjerg, J. (2010). A Model for Reflective Learning in 
Small Shop Agile Development. /Engaged Scandinavian Research. Selected 
Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia/, J. 
Molka-Danielsen, H. W. Nicolajsen and J. S. Persson. Molde, Norway, 
tapir Akademisk Forlag. 1*: *23-38.

And what does "really agile" mean: XP by the book or the principles laid 
out in; e.g. Cockburn's work. Look for papers by Heeager, L. She has 
explored (thesis work) how teams combine agile and "traditional" 
methods. She develops a "mesh" model in her thesis but I don't know if 
she has published it yet.

Tingling, P. Saeed, A. (2007) "Extreme Programming in Action -- A 
Longitudinal Case Study". In Proceedings of the HCI International 
Conference, Beijing, China.

Diane Strode. The agile methods: An analytical comparison of five agile 
methods and an investigation of their target environment. MS thesis, 
2005: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/515. See also other research works on 
https://sites.google.com/site/dianestrodepublic/

P.S.: Beside the references I got some suggestions and advices, which  
were also much appreciated by our team.

On 2012-12-02 09:24, Ilia Bider wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> A group of students of mine are starting a project with the goal of 
> investigating "Knowledge transformation/management in the agile 
> software development". The project includes field/case studies of the 
> agile development teams.
>
> The first problem to solve in the project is how to choose the right 
> teams, i.e. how to differentiate the teams that are really agile from 
> those who just state/believe that they are agile. As agile became a 
> buzz/fashion word, we think that there should be plenty of teams of 
> the second class :-).
>
> We do not suppose that there are ready made methods to make such a 
> differentiation, and will be working on a questionnaire based on the 
> agile manifesto http://agilemanifesto.org/. However, if somebody knows 
> any work, even if it is just MS/BS thesis, devoted to this particular 
> task, I and my students would appreciate getting references to such 
> works very much.
>
> The study itself concern knowledge management in the agile development 
> process. If you can point out any literature related to this topic, we 
> would appreciate it as well. For now the project is planned according 
> to the ideas presented at GTSE workshop http://bit.ly/V9750J see 
> slides: http://bit.ly/QXjynC and two pages position paper 
> http://bit.ly/PGSfNG.
>
> As usual the summary of responses will be send to the list.
>
> Many thanks and best regards
>
> -- Ilia
> ===============================================
> Dr. Ilia Bider
> Process- och systemutvecklingskonsult at ibissoft.se
> Följ oss på LinkedIn http://linkd.in/xpqlqa
> ilia at ibissoft.se +46 70 942 78 38
> Lektor & Forskare at DSV.su.se
> ilia at dsv.su.se
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Dr. Ilia Bider
Process- och systemutvecklingskonsult at ibissoft.se
Följ oss på LinkedInhttp://linkd.in/xpqlqa
ilia at ibissoft.se         +46 70 942 78 38
Lektor & Forskare at DSV.su.se
ilia at dsv.su.se
Preparing for the era of cloud computinghttp://slidesha.re/LOTFSZ

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